Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

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academic human mathematician

Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi was a 19th-century German mathematician renowned for his fundamental contributions to elliptic functions, number theory, and differential equations.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	academic → human → mathematician →
awardReceived	Copley Medal →
countryOfCitizenship	Kingdom of Prussia →
dateOfBirth	1804-12-10 →
dateOfDeath	1851-02-18 →
educatedAt	University of Berlin NERFINISHED → University of Halle NERFINISHED →
employer	University of Berlin NERFINISHED → University of Königsberg →
ethnicGroup	German →
familyName	Jacobi →
fieldOfWork	classical mechanics → determinants → differential equations → dynamical systems → elliptic functions → mathematics → number theory →
givenName	Carl → Gustav → Jacob →
influenced	David Hilbert → Henri Poincaré → Sophus Lie →
influencedBy	Carl Friedrich Gauss →
languageOfWorkOrName	German →
memberOf	Prussian Academy of Sciences →
nativeLanguage	German →
notableWork	Hamilton–Jacobi equation → Jacobi bracket → Jacobi determinant → Jacobi elliptic functions → Jacobi identity → Jacobi integral → Jacobi last multiplier → Jacobi matrix → Jacobi method → Jacobi operator → Jacobi polynomials → Jacobi symbol → Jacobi theta functions → Jacobi triple product → Jacobi’s four-square theorem → Jacobi’s triple product identity → Vorlesungen über Dynamik → theory of elliptic functions →
placeOfBirth	Kingdom of Prussia → Potsdam →
placeOfDeath	Berlin → Kingdom of Prussia →
positionHeld	professor of mathematics →
religion	Judaism →
sexOrGender	male →
sibling	Moritz von Jacobi →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Carl Friedrich Gauss → Niels Henrik Abel → Recherches sur les fonctions elliptiques →	influenced
Leopold Kronecker →	academicAdvisor